The Morning High Five
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Wondering how to teach your kids responsibility? Looking for ways to instill good homekeeping skills? Want just a little bit of help around the house?
Me, too!
Chores are good for kids. Not only do they help them learn home management and responsibility, but having regular household responsibilities gives them a vested interest in the workings of the household.
We are still a work in progress over here. But, we’ve got a few systems that are working. One of the regular parts of our day is The Morning High Five. The kids must do these five things before school each morning. I made up this chart and have copies of it plastered all over the house.
There’s no excuse for not knowing what you need to do each morning.
You can print out our chart or customize one of your own with this free printable.
Right now you can purchase my latest ebook, Organizing Life as MOM, which includes 173 pages of inspiration and planning ideas. 100+ pages are fillable planning sheets, meaning you can customize them to fit your life, your family, and YOU. It includes a new and improved version of The Morning High Five.
This basic list of five helps us get a good start on the day. It’s not all that our kids do for chores, but it’s an easy bare minimum and a way that helps us get the day rolling in a positive way.
We do this too! It’s so hard to get them working in the morning but when they do it sets the tone for the rest of the day! We do incentives and a chore chart and the sooner they get finished the sooner they can do what they want to do.
This. Is. Awesome!
Way more efficient than updating am chore charts for multiple young kids!
Thanks! xox
Hi! I LOVE this! My husband & I are working on a responsibility chart for our 6 yr. old and this will be wonderful for the morning routine.
However, you mentioned it can be customized but, I can’t seem to figure that part out. Like her Daddy, my daughter needs to eat as soon as she wakes up and then make her bed, get dressed etc. So I just want to change the order up a bit. Please let me know asap so we can start using this soon. 🙂 Thanks SO much for sharing!
The customizable version is in my ebook, Organizing Life as MOM.
This is a great idea! I was looking for something to help my godson (just turned 7) & god-daughter(1.5) who will undoubtedly have the task of “helping mommy”-my sis, along.
For motivation, one of my other god-children loves stickers! So, I think I’ll suggest it to my sis and to the reader above who wanted something for motivation. Another thing, what about re-arranging the 3-yr old’s tasks so breakfast comes first, then naturally he’ll get a sticker and be motivated to earn another 1-2 for now cleaning his dirty hands, teeth, etc and getting dressed. One thing I have found useful is doing things ‘alongside’ the one you are trying to motivate (kids, husband, etc) really helps with motivating them (parallel play).
Life is grand!
So, my 3 year old needs this Morning High Five but I can’t seem to get him to do those things. Any ideas for how to motivate? So far stickers work ok and timers just frustrate him, but I expect him to get things done reasonably. We waste a whole morning just reminding him to keep moving along with his chores. I want to homeschool preschool with him, but I’m so frustrated that he can’t get these simple chores done. Here’s my breakdown: use bathroom and dressed (10 min), breakfast (30 min), bathroom- wash face and hands (10 min). However, I can’t get him going on chore #1. He will drag this out into 2 hours if I let him. Help!
I think it depends on if he’s a young 3 or an old 3. My daughter is 3 1/2 and I don’t think she could be delegated to do those things. She can do them with reminders and with me sitting alongside her doing things.
He’ll be 3.5 at the end of May, but right after he turned 3 he was doing all these things, but now that it’s his job to do it by himself which he was doing very well, all of a sudden, he will do nothing that I say. I made the hand chart and that is helping a little. He is just a tough, stubborn and very smart kid! I have my hands full. I’m glad God only gave me 2 because it is more than I can handle some days. Routines take up almost our entire day!
I love your morning high-five idea. I’ve started using it for my 3 kids and they LOVE it. Thanks for sharing such a great idea!
So, I still love this one! I have just referred some friends to you once again, because the morning high five has saved my sanity!! Our kids still love the concept (if not the chores), and it gets our famiy on the move every morning.
Thanks!